Tcl

Send a Staged REST Request with a Binary Body

Demonstrates Rest.SendReqBd, which sends a request whose binary body is read from a BinData, then reads the response in separate steps.

The file paths are relative to the application's current working directory. Absolute paths may also be used. Supply the paths appropriate to your own environment.

Background. The staged request model separates sending from reading: a SendReq method transmits the request, ReadResponseHeader reads the status line and headers, and a ReadResp method reads the body. This gives fine control over large or streamed messages compared with the single-call full-request methods.

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load ./chilkat.dll

set success 0

set rest [new_CkRest]

set bTls 1
set bAutoReconnect 1
set success [CkRest_Connect $rest "example.com" 443 $bTls $bAutoReconnect]
if {$success == 0} then {
    puts [CkRest_lastErrorText $rest]
    delete_CkRest $rest
    exit
}

#  The file paths are relative to the application's current working directory.  Absolute paths
#  may also be used.  Supply the paths appropriate to your own environment.

#  Send a request whose binary body is read from a BinData.
set bdBody [new_CkBinData]

set bLoaded [CkBinData_LoadFile $bdBody "qa_data/image.png"]
if {$bLoaded != 1} then {
    puts "Failed to load the request body file."
    delete_CkRest $rest
    delete_CkBinData $bdBody
    exit
}

CkRest_AddHeader $rest "Content-Type" "image/png"

set success [CkRest_SendReqBd $rest "PUT" "/api/images/1" $bdBody]
if {$success == 0} then {
    puts [CkRest_lastErrorText $rest]
    delete_CkRest $rest
    delete_CkBinData $bdBody
    exit
}

#  After sending, read the response status line and header fields.  The return value is the HTTP
#  status code, or -1 if no response was received.
set statusCode [CkRest_ReadResponseHeader $rest]
if {$statusCode < 0} then {
    puts [CkRest_lastErrorText $rest]
    delete_CkRest $rest
    delete_CkBinData $bdBody
    exit
}

puts "Response status code: $statusCode"

#  Read the response body as text.
set responseBody [CkRest_readRespBodyString $rest]
if {[CkRest_get_LastMethodSuccess $rest] == 0} then {
    puts [CkRest_lastErrorText $rest]
    delete_CkRest $rest
    delete_CkBinData $bdBody
    exit
}

puts "$responseBody"

delete_CkRest $rest
delete_CkBinData $bdBody